Responses for Show #2554 - Thursday, October 12, 1995

Contestants

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Maureen Delgado, a foreign language teacher from Cyprus, Texas

Rob Fisher, a math teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Les Muldorf, an endodontist from Poughkeepsie, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,401)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD HISTORY
GUINNESS RECORDS
GEOLOGY
U.S. MUSEUMS
POTPOURRI
THE GAME SHOW NETWORK
(Alex: ...which began last year.)
    $100 11
Nuremberg

Maureen
    $100 21
push-ups

Rob
    $100 1
(Les: What are geysers?)
[Initially ruled incorrect; reversed before Daily Double at clue 14]

volcanoes

LesMaureen
    $100 16
Harland Sanders

Rob
    $100 2
Jack Frost

Les
    $100 26
The Dating Game

Rob
    $200 12
Devil's Island

Rob
    $200 22
an omelette

Maureen
    $200 5
a fault line

Les
    $200 17
Martin Luther King

Les
    $200 3
a porcupine

Maureen
    $200 27
Family Feud

Les
    $300 13
Edinburgh

Maureen
    $300 23
a sundial

Rob
    $300 6
sedimentary

Les
    $300 18
the America's Cup

Rob
    $300 4
a corsage

Rob
    $300 28
To Tell the Truth

Maureen
    $800 14
Peter the Great

Maureen
    $400 24
a kangaroo

Maureen
    $400 7
the continental shelf

Les
    $400 19
the Department of the Interior

Rob
    $400 9
opals

Maureen
    $400 29
The Joker's Wild

Rob
    $500 15
Egypt

Triple Stumper
    $500 25
kites

Les
    $500 8
(James) Smithson

Maureen
    $500 20
(Dr.) Mudd

Les
    $500 10
Verdi

Les
    $500 30
What's My Line?

Rob

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Les Rob Maureen
$1,600 $500 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Les Rob Maureen
$3,000 $2,700 $3,300

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BIBLICAL PEOPLE
NEWSPAPERS
VICE PRESIDENTS
AROUND THE HOUSE
THEATRE
HUMOROUS QUOTATIONS
    $200 8
Lazarus

Rob
    $200 16
Denver

Maureen
    $200 1
Nelson Rockefeller

Maureen
    $200 22
bunk beds

Les
    $200 2
Annie Get Your Gun

Maureen
    $200 17
temptation

Les
    $400 10
Peter

Maureen
    $400 27
Connecticut

Maureen
    $400 7
Spiro Agnew

Les
    $400 23
(Rob: What is... uh... beer?)
(Les: What is ice?)
...
(Alex: With about a minute to go.)

wine

LesRobMaureen
    $400 3
Thomas Becket

Rob
    $400 18
dumb

Maureen
    $600 11
(Maureen: Who is Shem?)

Seth

LesMaureen
    $600 28
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rob
    $600 9
Humphrey

Les
    $600 24
a rotisserie

Les
    $600 4
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Les
    $600 19
Hilary

Rob
    $1,500 12
Ruth

Les
    $800 29
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

USA Today

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 14
Alben Barkley

Rob
    $800 25
an armoire

Maureen
    $800 5
Blithe Spirit

Rob
    $800 20
[Les omits the "S" at the end of the given name in the response.]
(Alex: Well, we'll accept that, yeah. He pluralized it.)

Kilometers Davis

Les
    $1000 13
Saul

Rob
    $1000 15
Charles Dawes

Triple Stumper
    $1000 26
a Chesterfield

Les
    $1000 6
Six Degrees of Separation

Les
    $1000 21
(Alex: Who was that marvelous stand-up comic, [*]?)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Les Rob Maureen
$10,100 $7,900 $5,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FAMOUS NOVELS
(Alex: The most famous commandment, I suppose, from this novel, is "All ... are created equal, but some are more equal than others.")
...
(Alex: "All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.")
MaureenWhat is the Naked & the Dead
$5,700
RobWhat is ?
$2,200
LesWhat: ?
$5,701
Animal Farm

Final scores:

Les Rob Maureen
$4,399 $5,700 $0
2nd place: the Directions bedroom by Broyhill Premiere + numbered & signed limited edition serigraph Hollywood in the 30's by Linnea Pergola from Martin Lawrence Galleries + GameTek Jeopardy! New champion: $5,700 3rd place: RCA home theater laserdisc & CD player + GameTek Jeopardy!

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Les Rob Maureen
$9,400 $6,700 $5,300
21 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $21,400

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